5.?詞匯和指代類

實考真題?2009年閱讀理解 (TEXT A)

This typifies the way in which engineers work to help people and create a better quality?of life. The fact that this country has the most efficient agricultural industry in the world is?another good example. Mechanical engineers have worked with farmers and biologists to?produce fertilizers, machinery and harvesting systems. This team effort has now produced?crops uniformly waist high or less so that they are better suited to mechanical harvesting.

Similar advances with other crops have released people from hard and boring jobs for more?creative work, whilst machines harvest crops more effi ciently with less waste. Providing more?food for the rapidly increasing population is yet another role for the mechanical engineer.

84. According to the context, “This team effort” in Paragraph Two refers to ______

A. mechanical engineers.
B. doctors and engineers.
C. biologists, doctors and farmers.
D. farmers, biologists and engineers.

解析：答案D。指代類?！癕echanical engineers have worked with farmers and biologists to produce?fertilizers, machinery and harvesting systems.”這個團隊的成員包括農(nóng)場主、生物學家和工程師。

實考真題?2009年閱讀理解 (TEXT C)

“Of course, you’d lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos.” It was like offering?to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. “You might be able to recover them, but it?would be expensive.” He sounded delighted. “And it’s not covered by the warranty (產(chǎn)品保證書)!” The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full.

94. “It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache” in the last but one paragraph
means that ______.
A. the technician’s proposal would make things even worse.
B. the technician’s proposal could eventually solve the problem.
C. files stored on her computer were like a safe.
D. erasing the entire system was like curing a headache.

解析：答案A。詞匯類。

實考真題?2006年閱讀理解 (TEXT C)

During this time, all my knowledge of him was limited to occasional meetings about the?house, when he would sometimes pass me coldly, and sometimes bow and smile. His changes?of manner did not offend me, because I saw that I had nothing to do with the cause of them.

92. In “...and all my knowledge of him was limited to occasional meetings about the house,…”?the word “about” means ______

A. around B. on C. outside D. concerning

解析：答案A。詞匯類。我對他所有的了解就是在房子附近的幾次偶遇。根據(jù)專四閱讀理解題型的特點，考生平時應該掌握一定的閱讀技巧，采用相應的閱讀策略，了解常見的閱讀理解題型，多多練習。